From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 26 18:07:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA11820 for mobile-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 18:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from polya.blah.org (slmel4p36.ozemail.com.au [203.108.201.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA11815 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 18:07:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ada@localhost) by polya.blah.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) id LAA05563 for mobile@freebsd.org; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:07:28 +1000 (EST) From: Ada T Lim Message-Id: <199709270107.LAA05563@polya.blah.org> Subject: Re: TP560 Port Replicator In-Reply-To: from "Brian N. Handy" at "Sep 26, 97 03:13:42 pm" To: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:07:09 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The port replicator is pretty cool, but awful simple for the $250US you > fork out for it. All it amounts to is a attachement gizmo that provides a > clone of the back of the thinkpad -- cosmetically it's almost the same > thing. So, you plug a mouse, keyboard and monitor into it and then just > drop the laptop on it at will and viola, everything's there. Some rumours > I've heard in the past is that there's a SCSI connector built into it and > other stuff -- nope, nothing like that. You get nothing for Free here! > You still have to plug in all the PCMCIA stuff that you want to use. The port replicators don't do this. What you want is the Selecta-Dock I/II, which contains 1 or 2 PCI slots, a SCSI controller, and a drive bay or two, I think. Oh, and they do port replication too. However, these are awfully expensive - all up almost $1k US, which is like enough to build a second machine and do everything over ether. Ada